SAR and optical remote sensing: Assessment of complementarity and interoperability in the context of a large-scale operational forest monitoring system

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 335-348

  Lehmann, Eric A ^a   Caccetta, Peter ^a   Lowell, Kim ^b   Mitchell, Anthea ^c   Zhou, Zheng Shu ^a   Held, Alex ^a   Milne, Tony ^c   Tapley, Ian ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d CRC SI Perth   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Canonical variate analysis; Conditional probability network; Forest carbon tracking; Landsat; Linear discriminant analysis; RADARSAT 2

Indexed keywords

ALOS PALSAR; CANONICAL VARIATE ANALYSIS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; FOREST CARBONS; LANDSAT; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RADARSAT-2;

EID: 84908354945     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.09.034     Document Type: Article

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